Monthly Archives: April 2016

In this post, we continue to study a very interesting subset of the publicly available CPS microsample data: people working multiple jobs. We have already seen the dynamics in gender distribution as well as education patterns. Today we focus on their industries.

In this post we look into ACS PUMS data to see what the average salary is for college graduates throughout different majors. We have selected respondents aged between 25 and 65 years that hold at least a bachelor’s degree and are currently employed. Below you can see a bar chart of the mean salary.

An ancient proverb says that you cannot step in the same river twice, but some people are trying to disprove it. Pew Research Center conducted a survey about remarriages in 2014: the result shows that four in 10 new American marriages include at least one previously-married partner.

Were you and your spouse (or partner) born in the same state? It appears that five in every nine American couples can say so. Let’s take a closer look – are there states with unusually high (or low) rates? What is the percentage of same-sex couples?

In this post we analyze recent ACS data to see which fields college graduates work in. We are particularly interested in the relationship between the college degree that participants mentioned in the survey and their actual job occupation. We have used a five-year PUMS sample and selected adults from 25 to 65 years old who hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Elections in the United States are a process that can unify the whole country, and are also the driving factor behind American democracy. People who are voters in national elections must be American citizens (native-born or naturalized) and at least 18 years old. There were six national elections between 2004 and 2014: three congressional and three presidential.

In that period, the voting rate of non-Hispanic Whites across presidential elections decreased from 79.2 percent in 2004 to 73.7 percent in 2012. The non-Hispanic White share of the voting population dropped from 80.4 percent in 2006 to 76.3 percent in 2014. Across the last three election cycles in both types of elections, the voting rate of non-Hispanic Whites fell slightly.

It is now general knowledge that the number of college graduates in the U.S. continues to rise. Here we take a deeper look into the educational attainment numbers and how they changed during the last 10 years.

In this post continue analyzing data on employment and migration. We are interesting in workers who reside in one county and go for work in a different one. This time we got the data from the Metropolitan and Micropolitan section of the Census.

Mormonism is the religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity. It was founded by Joseph Smith in the 1820s in New York. Mormonism today is the new, non-Protestant faith. After Smith’s death, most Mormons followed Brigham Young on his journey to the territory of Utah, calling themselves The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The word Mormon comes from the Book of Mormon, one of their religious texts.

According to the recent data from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, a significant proportion of the most obese cities in the country are found in Texas. The obesity rate is in excess of 40 percent in some places here.

Today we will take a more data-oriented approach. We’ll base our approach on the Body Mass Index. While this index has its (universally accepted) flaws, it should still be acceptable for statistical analysis – in fact, it was designed with this usage scenario in mind.